The Medplaya Hotel Rio Park is a 4* hotel in Benidorm, Spain that caters to British package holiday tourists from Thomson Holidays, being its most popular hotel, accounting, as of 2001, for 10% of all Thomson guests, and having catered to over a million visits from British tourists, more than any other hotel in the world.
[1] The hotel is several streets away from the beach and is not luxurious, although it does offer a swimming pool and evening entertainment, and boasts high occupancy rates year round, something that has been attributed to the hotel's manager since opening, José Miralpeix.
[1][2] In the 1970s there were a number of outbreaks of Legionnaires Disease at the hotel causing several deaths, eventually identified as originating from the hotel's drinking water system.
[3] Despite the apparent bad publicity, bookings at the hotel reportedly increased as more potential visitors recognised the name than the cause of its infamy.
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